ALLEGAN, MI – Wayland attorney Patrick Burson has been arrested on methamphetamine charges after police allegedly found meth labs at his office and Otsego home, state police said.

Burson, 35, and two co-defendants, Polly Gates, 28, and Sherry Cunningham, 36, turned themselves in to the Sheriff’s Department on Wednesday, Nov 28.

They were arraigned in Allegan County District Court by Magistrate Kirby Goodwin.

Burson is charged with four counts of operate/maintain a methamphetamine lab, a 20-year felony, and two counts of methamphetamine possession, a 10-year felony.
Gates faces the same charges, along with two counts of delivery/manufacture of methamphetamine, a 20-year felony. Cunningham is charged with possession of amphetamines, a two-year felony.

They have pre-exam hearings on Dec. 6 before Judge Joseph Skocelas.

Police in June used search warrants at Burson’s law office in Wayland and a home in Otsego Township. Police said methamphetamine labs and production components were found at each location.

Because Burson worked in the Allegan County courts, the case was turned over to the state Attorney General’s Office, which assigned it to Berrien County prosecutors.